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How Many More?
June 19, 2006
Over the last year, I've spoken at a lot of high schools that have about 2,000 to 2,500 students on campus. I ask them to close their eyes and visualize an empty school. Only then can they begin to relate to this devastating number.But for those of us who have lost a son or a daughter or a brother or a sister or a father or a mother in this war, the number one is more than enough.
One empty chair at the table.
One folded flag on the mantel.
One driverless car sitting in the driveway waiting for the finance company to come and pick it up.
One person never coming home.
One broken family that cannot be repaired.
How many more?
How many more of our nation's finest are we willing to kill to enhance the bottom line of the Halliburtons and the Exxon Mobils? How many more of our young wounded is it going to take before our country wakes up?
How many more Iraqi babies are we going to allow our leaders to murder before we realize that all babies are precious, loved, and mourned when they are killed?
They are such simple words, but so powerful. Every time I think about writing a post about how dumb war - ALL war - is, I stop myself, thinking it has all been said before. I am glad that Cindy Sheehan doesn't do the same thing. Evidently we need to keep saying it.
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It's all too much...too high a price to pay.
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